skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can chime in here - I've studied in the India - then the states and then back in India.

Copying is endemic. Amongst the final year students in my CS class of nearly 50 I think maybe 1 person did it on their own.

The rest knew a guy who knew a guy who had a copy of the project.

This is for your undergrad degree.

For my 10th standard practical exams, which I did in one of the more strict institutions, the invigilator who came from another school left the room for a short time, and my physics professor came in and took a look at what we were doing.

he didn't give us advice directly, but with enough stern looks and exasperated sighs he let people know what they were doing wrong, and why certain experiments were doomed to fail. Then again given the sorry state of some of the equipment like the calipers, I doubt we could have gotten too precise a measurement anyway.

Similarly for the chem practicals and bio practicals.

I also know that our professors would go to other schools and invigilate there, where they would return the favor.

Onward to practical exams in undergrad - Comp sci was probably easier to copy and cheat. The engineering courses were similar though - you could find a talented student/graduate who would make your projects for you at a price.

This is still nothing, because every year there is a scandal where the question papers are leaked for almost every exam. This is constant.

People will find a bribe-able teacher or peon and get X or Y exam paper from them. Again constant and ongoing. This is often the option of the desperate, who also resort to interesting ways to cheat - such as having your text books hidden away in the toilets and so on, or on your phones, or scratched onto the desks or the walls.

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I can't find it anymore, but there was a great article written by a professional paper writer in the US. He used to work for a firm that wrote papers and articles for college students who could afford them.

He never looked down on his students - some of them were quite wealthy and he knew that they would go on to do something else once they graduated. So for him this was just an extension of them learning useful real world skills and he appreciated those clients who made no pretense and could give instructions on how he would like an article to be written and what emphasis to be given.
Tesla employee reviews(work hard with low pay and free cereal)
This is going to sound like GUSHING, uncritical praise, but I've just started testing out cloudant (past few weeks) after previous setting up my own CouchDB instance on AWS.

I have to say that not only is the service itself great, its fantastic to be able to deal with REAL people when you need to know a little info...

Rather than just posting on a forum and waiting they always have people on their IRC channel and I've found them to be really helpful over email also.
My favorite online biz community is the Dynamite Circle -

http://tropicalmba.com/innercircle

Also check out Micropreneur Academy and the Foundation
Austrian Provider hosts Raspberry Pi for free (colocation)
It's also common knowledge that govts don't actually handle exernalities all that well. In fact, they often make things worse.

And then there's the whole "regulatory capture" thing.

Govts fail all the time.
Wonder if there would be any performance gains to be had from targeting Typescript at Dart VM? :)
Trust me, as a lawyer I'd love for the government to force companies to internalize externalities through litigation. But not only is it wholly impractical for physical and logistical reasons, it's also not the law and hasn't been since the industrial revolution.
You seem to be talking about outsourcing companies like TCS, Infosys etc.

In the technical field, cheating or faking it can only take you so far. Comparison should not really be with companies like TCS, Infosys, but with good companies who hire real talent and pay for that talent.

This, as far as I know is a direct result of proliferation of the number of engineering colleges in India. A good warning for companies to start recruiting only from top engineering colleges.
I don't think it has to be binary: [ ] ready [x] not ready. It's ready for a certain set of use cases and platforms, but not everything, much as Hypercard was ready for calculator clones, but not 3D flight simulators.

The internet itself is a prime example of the value of a common platform accessible by nearly any device. That doesn't mean such a platform needs to be all things to all people.
I have a bunch of friends who work at Tesla. They do work hard, one of whom works waaaaay too hard, but it's meaningful work. They're changing the world.

It's a similar feeling I get from people I know who work at Apple.
Wish someone would update the topic here, since it's not open source as per the generally understood definition ... (as the article's source has updated / corrected on his blog)
1) I read a lot of economics blogs and I see many economists who are against "government picking winners and losers" in the form of subsidies; but favor, e.g. revenue-neutral carbon taxes. There are strong economic reasons why the two are not at all the same.

2) Direct government subsidies for favored corporations is likely less economically efficient than doing nothing in cases. Subsidy decisions are not guided at all by the info encoded in the price system, and are instead likely to be based on rent-seeking by favored interests groups. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem...;

Your original comment cited "basic economics" and implied that the government would be better than the market at "picking winners and losers" in the face of negative externalities. But that is not a consensus view among economists.
Not every guy who did their project themselves ended up as an entrepreneur, but almost all entrepreneurs did their college projects themselves.
The terminology is reflective of the flawed proposition that the market will pick efficient winners. The government "picking winners and losers" is implicitly juxtaposed against a hypothetical "fair game."
Well, that sounds pretty cool, but I believe there are various DRM workarounds if you jailbreak an iOS device, too. (Market Access requires you to root your phone, right?)

I was mostly speaking to the way these markets and devices are intended to operate. Basically they all suck, but the implementation details may make one less of a pain in the ass than another, for a given situation. In Apple's case, I think they are the most convenient if you already have a credit card in every country you care about purchasing from.
> Direct government subsidies for favored corporations is likely less economically efficient than doing nothing in cases.

In cases, yes. Given the sheer magnitude of thee externalities in environmental situations, not likely. We're talking trillions of dollars of implicit subsidies here.
You mean like http://techland.time.com/2012/04/18/crab-computing-the-futur...
>But it's also undeniable that the high-skill immigrants with problems are generally from India and China (where the H1B system is most broken due to nationwide quotas) and from other parts of Asia, Europe, etc., and the illegal/low skill immigrants are largely from Mexico, Guatemala, and other Latin American countries.

So what? The goal of any immigration policy should be what's good for the host country, not what the racial makeup of the immigrants is.
Where's Hollywood Upstairs Medical College?!
Tent can't be slow, it's a protocol.
I don't disagree with those things, but the meme "government shouldn't pick winners and losers" doesn't capture any of those points. In the debate, Romney said in the same spiel that the free market always works better.
Not only do I like this approach but codepen.io is gathering lots of talent. Great source of inspiration, thanks CC.
> Apple seems the easiest to work with as long as you maintain an account and a credit card in every country you want to deal with.

Why not deal with one country only? I have been using my German Apple ID quite happily on three continents. I may miss out on some movies, music and especially iBooks, but there are plenty of other sources. The only hard downside is that some local apps are limited to the respective App Store, e.g. the Australian Optus Mobile (carrier) app.

I think Apple's account system is needlessly complicated, but what problems are there if you stick to one account?
Sounds like something the EU may want to deal with, considering their freedom of movement.
+1--I'd like to be able to see an example.

I read the page twice trying to figure out what it is before I nixed it.
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I believe Monique Farantzos and Jon Lech Johansen is working hard to bring iTunes and Android together.
Yes, that is what makes Apple's way superior to Google's; your valid account from one country doesn't stop working when you go to another country.

But there are still reasons to use two accounts. In Japan there are apps which are only available in the Japanese app store (although I cannot understand why). For example, I use some navigation apps and my wife uses some cooking apps that are only available in Japan.
http://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi/

Version of the link in English.
Hope some good news come on SpaceX, too. What's up with F-H with its so dubious payload figures, especially for high energy trajectories? How's the cross-feed system is coming along (if it haven't been dropped yet)? Where is the 'super efficient staged combustion methane engine' you mentioned a year back, any idea what thrust class it is and what is the fuel combination?
in the past Nintendo systems have been pretty apathetic regarding regional restrictions

Not sure I'd agree with that. Even the snes/famicom used differently shapes cartridges to block importing.
What happened in the early days of oDesk?
Somewhat tangentially related, hence my shameless plug:

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Hopefully my girlfriend doesn't find out about this! ;)

Great project!
This is one of my favorites
AppSumo: An Open Letter from Chief Sumo
I don't know much about him as a person and as a speaker, but his first few paragraphs flagged my BS meter at "!full disclosure"

From experience with 10-Ks and working on/seeing how financial documents are massaged, this felt very similar.

ninja Edit: grammar/language.
It doesn't have to be one-size-fits-all. There could be a 'receive updates about this book' checkbox when purchasing the book.
(I was just a contractor for a few tiny companies, but got to work closely with people from various units ranging from "other" people to line infantry/MPs to CS/CSS to medical to allies to host nation, so I got to see a wide spectrum of great to defective for everything and then try to do whatever the people I was with did, or what made the most sense for me. I confess to having been one of the "empty plate carrier" wearers on some big bases, but I think it was an educated decision...)

The most interesting thing I saw in 8 years was working with the guys from the Institute for Surgical Research (ISR), making sure they got x-rays and CTs of all injuries, so they could have a team of doctors go through and figure out which equipment and weapons worked, which didn't, and how various pre and in-hospital interventions ended up over a statistically significant number of patients. I'd still rather have USA/USN/USAF trauma surgeons than anything I've seen in the civilian world)
It's even more ridiculous once you realise that data: URLs work in CSS.

Thus, I hereby present to you, the Mona Lisa in pure css (!!), using even fewer bytes!

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/gnqlc
Here's a sample user page http://www.storylane.com/gauss
No you would never do this.

Right or wrong as a matter of managing your finances this is just not something a competent CFO would allow on his watch.

You accepted a loan, the loan originator had some terms and you are both in compliance and acceptance of those terms.

There is no rational or financial reason to make that choice.

I understand doing good, but there is a consistency in the choices firms which do good make. This is inconsistent.
1. 20 - 30 projects a year = 1 yr. inexperienced programmer salary.
2. Fun - yes, Interesting - yes => if you can convince students to choose projects on whatever you want to work on.
3. Project making companies are dime a dozen.
4. Most welcome :)

PS - when I was a student I did 2-3 other projects for others...

AND students studying MS in USA and UK also send their assignments/homeworks back home - did those too ;)
Politics aside, Tesla is not the future either. At least not with their current models or anything derivable. Sure, they're doing a great job building battery powered electric cars but personally I don't see how they can work for everyone in the same way that fossil fuel powered cars do today.

I'm driving a diesel (being european this isn't too odd) and I'm driving a lot of long distances. The beauty about the fossil fuel powered car is, that I can drive some 800km on a tank, stop for fuel which takes me about 5 minutes and then carry on. Tesla claims a 3-3.5h charge time. Even if the range was the same, which it isn't, this just isn't gonna work for anyone who drives across a country rather than through cities. To this day I haven't heard of any battery powered car that is charging in acceptable time compared to filling up a fuel tank.

Don't get me wrong, in a way I like electric motors. The torque they produce is amazing! What bothers me is the use of batteries. The technology I personally saw most potential in was the use of hydrogen fuel cells. The tank is filled with hydrogen, the fuel cell powers the electric motor. I'm not for a second suggesting hydrogen is a good "fuel" in the sense that we can just dig it up somewhere and get additional energy. What hydrogen is good at though, is storing energy and because filling a tank with it happens in a matter of minutes it's a whole lot better than carrying thousands of laptop batteries in your car.
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Ask HN: Tax consequences of server location
We are about to set up our production environment in AWS and are wondering about the tax consequences of where the servers are located. We are a Swedish start-up and since AWS is cheapest in the US we'd love to place the servers there but we've heard that we might risk double taxation if we do that (i.e. both Sweden and the US will tax us).

Do you guys have any experience having the servers in the US for non-US start-ups?
Surely I'm not the only one thinking "Shadow ships! Aiiieee!"
I wouldn't be surprised to see bluetooth/battery-capable versions of some of these in the future. It would seem the next logical product upgrade.
"Imagine that this was your Mac (or your PC). And, in an upgrade to a new version of the operating system, Apple or Microsoft deleted applications on your device. Instead of PhotoShop, you now get NewAwesomeImageEditor, and instead of Skype, you get … nothing.

This is outrageous."

Yes, imagine.

"Previously obvious applications like Windows Calendar and Windows Contacts are now gone for good. You can get back much of the functionality from these apps, as it turns out, but via a download-only application called Windows Live Mail. What?" - http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows-7/windows-7-revi...
I guess it was just hearsay then. I'm not much of a gamer but my friends never seemed to have any complaints and I do recall mixing and matching now and again (though on what systems I'm going to be second guessing from now on). Apparently the Gamecube had region protection as well.
Things change over time. I was talking to my father about the birth of the original (non racist) skin head movement in the UK. He said that the two enduring images of shaven heads in popular psyche, were of those in mental asylums, and people from concentration camps.

So initially it was about subverting something that was wildly seen as a mark of weakness and abuse. He said there were article and letters questioning why young men would allow themselves to appear like this, and it was at the time in no way seen as masculine.
RSS To JSON
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With growth in the middle classes you will get a lot more people not working "real" jobs. This is a repeated pattern across the world. First everyone forces their children into the money-making professions. Then the second generation attempts to not repeat the choices their parents made for them that they resented. Eventually, it evens out and you get people who do what they want to do.
Then I guess this won't affect The Beatles's "Eleanor Rigby" (stereo variant).
Google Fiber expected to be profitable after 5 years of operation
I think the HTML5 vs Native debate is less about the software as it is about hardware support on a corporate or communal level. As a software developer, i've been hoping HTML5 would take off since I first learned about it. However, in mobile, there seems to be a trend for hardware and software synergy.. a preference to really own the vertical stack and have full control over the experience and in order to build a great phone. On the native side, the titans of Google, Microsoft, and Apple all have their weight behind their own respective platforms.

While the community in software for HTML5 is strong, the reason i'm starting to bet against is because of the lack of love from the hardware side of things. I'm not sure I can imagine a large existing company in hardware pushing HTML5 as far as its own native platform. Without a phone or mobile device built and designed with HTML5 in mind, is it really possible for the fortress to crumble inside out?
looks like a clone of http://www.remenis.com/
First of all an undergrad in India is naive and needs good mentoring. That's missing and no one cares to solve this problem!

I think we have to blame the Indian education system largely for this.
The root cause is - The quality of the system is poor and is broken. But it should only get better over-time and its happening.

Indian Schooling system is not ready to bring out Quality Engineers. It doesn't encourage Creative thinking and promote an intellectual environment.

There are many IT companies that fill this void by giving 6months intensive training because they know the education system.

Another social-cultural reason being - Indians are spoon feed-ed right from birth. They aren't independent much and depend on schooling more. This promotes a conservative mindset.

But this norm will gradually change for the better, I'm already seeing today's young undergrads getting involved in Startup space by asking internships and are doing some really great work!

In my startup, we have given internship projects to undergrads but we never value their paper degrees or schooling. We only value their github page, OSS work and appreciate self-taught programmers.
Getting Nuclear Information From 90 Year Old Relative
I have a family member who is above 90 years old who worked on things of a Nuclear nature right out of college [I presume]. Whenever I broach the subject, which is about once a year, at a family function, he usually tactfully steers the conversation away to other things. But I have gotten this out of him. He definitely made at least parts for nuclear "things". He graduated from college in 1940-41 and went on to work for GE in their Neutron Devices Dept. It's those early years, the "beginning years" of the atomic age that I am fascinated by and want to hear his story... whether he was involved, even indirectly, in those developmental stages of the A-bomb.
Does anybody have good, solid questions that I can ask him to get his history without having him reveal any classified information? This is crucial to my family history.
Edited to add that he did work for GE all his life but it's those first few years right out of college that I am missing. Those are the "mystery years" that I long to uncover for my family history.
But isn't it still without consequence to file a false claim? I feel like there should be some sort of "punishment" to filing a false claim, whether done out of stupidity or malice.
On your fb tag line you have padding that ruins your y's.
The idea that you can reduce an entire institution to a single number that is at all meaningful is pretty silly. I would hate to think that anyone uses these rankings for anything more important than idle bragging.
I remember reading that Apple was preparing to merge all the iTunes stores in the Eurozone into a master EU store after pressure from the EU, but I don't know if that was just rumors or it's still in progress.
It should've been Tesla :)
The media has just revealed to the world another simple tactic for al Qaeda to "do their thing". It's treasonous in my opinion. Some people do not think before they publish. Of course the blame lies with the idiot who sold the keys in the first place.
Android goes off the country of the SIM card that's in it, last I checked. So either you can pop in a foreign SIM and make your purchase over WiFi (this worked for me even with an expired SIM), or use an app such as MarketEnabler to spoof your SIM carrier code.
Google did it in February with Screenwise.
>>AND students studying MS in USA and UK also send their assignments/homeworks back home - did those too ;)

Actually MS in USA and UK in many(Not all, so please don't frown on me) cases is really for.

a. Foreign degree.
b. USA return/citizen stamp.
c. Helps to get dowry in many cases.

How many people actually go there to study in the true sense?
I don't think the space is too crowded. For many opportunities, the sales force necessary and the dollar opportunities make it a significant challenge.

Groupon and LivingSocial have to maintain a huge sales force to keep new daily deals in the pipeline. SMB's aren't serving themselves.

Square is a one-time purchase with recurring revenue for the business, and a massive benefit to the business. Square also has a significant amount of money to spend on marketing.

Google is the go to solution for e-mail, so again, a no brainer.

Innovation (technical) isn't the solution to everything. I believe to break into this space you need sales innovation as well. Remember, many people in this space are non-technical, so selling them a technical solution that they don't NEED can be a challenge.
Sorry, this cannot be right. I've had an Xbox and an Xbox Live account linked to my MSN since 2001.

In 2006 I moved from the UK to The Netherlands, in the opposite direction of the guy in the blog post.

I've never had a problem buying anything on Xbox Live: the only issue I've had is the same as with all networks: they always give me the terms + conditions in Dutch with no option to switch to English (which was only an issue for the first 18 months, after that time my Dutch was good enough to read it).
Nintendo's home consoles have always been region-locked, via intentional hardware differences on the NES/Famicom, SNES, and n64, and via software means on everything newer. The Game Boy line and original DS (including DS Lite) are not region-locked at all. The DSi is regioned for DSi-enabled software, including DS/DSi hybrid software like Pokémon Black and White. The 3DS is region-locked in software.